Probably Italy. All institutions and many households still have a working but unused fax line in Italy (which most photocopiers still support). Many documents can only be transferred either in person or by fax.

We are not savages, we have low cost multi-gigabit optic-fiber household connections available in the majority of cities. Our bureaucracy is just anachronistic.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Germany-Italy-Japan the Faxes-Axis remains strong.

[–] cageythree@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

The faxis

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

USA too for a lot of shit, now that we’re an axis power I guess

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

So many of those fax lines are just email servers in a trench coat in the US though

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can't you just send official stuff via Posta elettronica certificata? I thought that was the point of these sorts of systems

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

PEC is usually not free (neither is fax, but a landline is more common than PEC). But also, I think it's not accepted everywhere.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ah that's a shame, if they made it free (at least for communication with the state) i think it could clear up the fax situation a lot. They did this in my country and it got rid of the faxes

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 22 hours ago

Sometimes banks give you a PEC address, but it's mostly for communicating with the bank, and you are paying for it as part of the bank's services.